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Percy Keese Fitzhugh. Tom Slade with the Flying Corps
Tom Slade with the Flying Corps
Table of Contents
PART ONE—THE SECRET OF THE SCUPPERS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
PART TWO—REMINISCENCES OF SLADE’S CAREER
FOREWORD
CHAPTER I. COMRADES
CHAPTER II. TOM APPEARS ON THE SCENE
CHAPTER III. SLADE’S EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE
CHAPTER IV. FIRE AND WATER
CHAPTER V. TOGETHER
Thomas Slade,
Archibald Archer,
CHAPTER VI. UP IN THE AIR
CHAPTER VII. CHANGING SCENES
CHAPTER VIII. THE OTHER GUN
CHAPTER IX. MONSIEUR LE CAPITAINE
CHAPTER X. THE SOUVENIR OF SOUVENIRS
CHAPTER XI. AIRMAN AND SCOUT
CHAPTER XII. THE LAST ADVENTURE
PART THREE—THE GRAY METEOR
I
II
III
IV
V
POSTSCRIPT—WRITTEN AFTER MY RETURN TO AMERICA
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Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I felt as if I were myself guilty of some form of brutal frightfulness as I pointed to the little supplementary notice upon the substance of which I supposed that the government had based its official confirmation of Tom’s death.
An official report to Washington states that a German aviator, flying over the American lines, dropped the cap which Slade had worn into an American camp. It contained the metal identification disk which the young flier had worn on a cord around his neck, and a small badge linked with it which is thought to signify some honor greatly prized in the ranks of the Boy Scouts of America. With these trinkets was a note in German saying that young Slade had been buried in the village of Pevy and that a cross with his name upon it had been placed over his grave.
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